2007-11-01 08:54:41 · 14 answers · asked by jennifer 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Makes me think of an episode of the X-files where the photographer was trying to get a picture of death. He lived on and on, but wanted to die, but nothing would kill him. He remembered decades before he had a wife, but that's all that he remembered.
So, if the life was not remembered, whats the point? If I kept a young, virile body, and sound intact mind, oh yeah I would.
I really don't think this question was directed at religion, or it would have been there, people!
As for the standard answer people give me when i ask this: "No, I wouldn't want to see all my loved ones die". Okay, come on, lots of people get remarried after their spouse died. You could just do it a few hundred times. Also, you could make new friends, learn every career there is...silly thing to say "no" to this question. Something wrong with a person that says, "nah, I'll die, it's okay". If it was really possible, I bet most of you would change your tune.
2007-11-01 14:53:05 · answer #1 · answered by primalclaws1974 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignoring all the sorrows 'live forever' would mean, such as losing your loved ones, and getting to know people who you know you'll lose in time - a circulus vitiosus..
Still, I say I would use the chance, and pass on my life-experience, teach the others things I've lived through long before them.
2007-11-01 09:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by Devie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on three things...
1. If you don't mean just here on earth, physically, then yes! I would love to, and if my religious beliefs are correct, I will!
2. If you mean here on earth, physically, then it still depends. Does everyone get to live forever if they want? If it is just me, or a small few, then sure! Why not give it a try?
3. If everyone gets to do it, then forget it. I'd rather die. The end result would be over-population beyond our wildest imagination, and the result of THAT would be overcrowding, extreme poverty, lack of resources, war, disease, and misery worse than anything the world has ever seen... and the world has seen a LOT.
2007-11-01 09:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not quite forever but 3 or 4 thousand years would be nice
2007-11-01 09:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All humans have that innate desire to live for much, much longer, and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
I will only wish to live forever in the Kingdom of God.
2007-11-01 09:03:33 · answer #5 · answered by Ambassador Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hope live forever but if i get this chance i'll not accept it. i love live but i do not see that the Eternity is good. we have to move to the next stage which is the other live.
thanks yahoo
2007-11-02 22:50:20 · answer #6 · answered by Muhammad Khalifa. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely not. With all the suffering and stress going on in the world, who would want to prolong it? One life is enough.
2007-11-01 09:02:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel I would want to, but I probably could not even if it were possible.
Most likely something would depress me until it took that desire from me.
Free will is a myth.
2007-11-01 11:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by Wayne P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my current body ... no!!!
My faith teaches me that when I shed my body that I'll get a new glorified body that will last eternity. Faith, hope, and love will outlast my glorified body ... so there's gotta be an omega to my afterlife.
2007-11-01 08:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not want to...imagine things such as your love-life (something I don't have as of yet), would you simply become remarried when you eventually tire of that person?
2007-11-01 09:16:44 · answer #10 · answered by Jason Marke' 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋